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yuppie detritus

I did a major Purging this weekend and donated a lot of old clothes and random household items to Goodwill. It felt fantastic to rid myself of clothes I never wear and random stuff I never use — and now the corner of my bedroom I’d piled those donations-to-be in is clean and junk-free.

At the same time, though, the actual dropping-off of these things felt a bit strange, an uncomfortable moment highlighting class differences (and similarities. Rob and I drove up behind the Goodwill store, unloaded our goods (bagged in shopping bags from the likes of Old Navy, Hecht’s, Banana Republic and Crate & Barrel), and handed the bags off to a man who tossed them in the back of a trailer filled with similar yuppie-branded bags of discarded stuff. And as we left the crowded parking lot, we braked for Goodwill customers entering the store, going to buy our cast-offs.